How much did CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL grant in FY2024?

CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL reported 44 grants totaling $16,587,045 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL based?

CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL is based in CA.

CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL

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CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL

The mission of california casa is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive.

$17M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$3.0M

Largest

01What you fund

0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Civil Rights$21MCrime & Legal$3.8MHuman Services$1.8MHealth$190kOther$2.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2022

pilot

2023

appappropriationabused neglectedsan franciscofreevalleyadvocacy

2024

appropriationabused neglectedsan franciscofreevalleyadvocacytrained

2025

approp farfar northappropriationabused neglectedvolunteers advocateadvocacysafe

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k5 grants · $161k
$50k–250k16 grants · $2.0M
$250k+23 grants · $14M

$250,918

Median grant

States reached

$10M

Total assets

Largest grants

CASA OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY$3,047,399
CASA OF ORANGE COUNTY$1,780,111
VOICES FOR CHILDREN$1,759,835
CHILD ADV OF SILICON VALLEY$663,570
CASA OF FRESNO COUNTY$607,257
CASA OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$591,600
CASA OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY$580,552
CASA OF KERN COUNTY$524,567
CASA OF SAN FRANCISCO COUNTY$512,559
CHILD ADV OF PLACER COUNTY$507,029
CASA OF SANTA BARBARA CNTY$441,389
CASA OF SAN LUIS OBISPO CNTY$352,354
CASA OF TULARE COUNTY$342,697
CASA OF MONTEREY COUNTY$340,899
CASA OF SOLANO COUNTY$289,922

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$29M · 44 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$29M

$16k

Still filing today

95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Civil RightsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

CO
CASA of Los Angeles
3× · 2021–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +76% · 38% of their budget
VF
VOICES FOR CHILDREN
2× · 2023–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +26%
CO
CASA OF ORANGE COUNTY
2× · 2023–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +12%

Funded once

CO
Casa of Del Norte
one grant, 2020 · $5k
CO
CASA of Santa Cruz County
one grant, 2020 · $5k
CO
CASA of Monterey County
one grant, 2020 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Court Appointed Special Advocates of

Purpose of casa is to advocate for the best interest of the vulnerable children in foster care. these children have been removed from their homes due to a substantiated case of abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal

Court Appointed Special Advocates of

Recruit, train and supervise volunteers to advocate for abused, neglected and abandoned children placed in foster homes. CASA volunteers ensure children's best interests remain the priority and their needs met while working to establish a…

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Casa of Tipton County

Child Advocacy Services

Crime & Legal

Court Appointed Special Advocates

Advocate in the judicial system for the best interest of victims of abuse and neglect in foster care, giving the child a voice in court and moving the child to a safe and permanent home.

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Court Appointed Special Advocates of Bastrop Count

The organization recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers who provide advocacy services to child victims removed by the state from homes because of abuse or neglect

Civil Rights

Casa Childrens Intervention Services Inc

Provide a voice in a court for abused and neglected children through volunteer court and appointed advocates.

Civil Rights

Court Appointed Special Advocates Casa

Casa provides trained, court-appointed volunteers to serve as advocates for the best interests of abused and neglected children in liberty and chambers counties of texas.

Human Services

Canadian County Casa Inc

Serve as court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the judicial system

Crime & Legal

Court Appointed Special Advocates of

Casa recruits, trains,and supervises adult volunteers who are appointed by a juvenile court judge to speak for the best interest of the child and help find the child a safe permanent home. with a casa volunteer, a child is half as likely…

Civil Rights

Court Appointed Special Advocates of

The purpose of casa is to advocate for the best interest of the vulnerable children in foster care. these children have been removed from their homes due to a substantiated case of abuse and neglect. the casa volunteer serves as the…

Crime & Legal

Court Appointed Special Advocate

Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) for Children is a community-based program that recruits, trains and supports citizen-volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children in court in Harford County,…

Civil Rights

Casa for Kids Inc

To promote and support professionally trained Court Appointed Special Advocates for abused and neglected children in need of safety, stability, and permanency, brought to the attention of the Juvenile Courts

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Court Appointed Special Advocates of and the most unlike its peers is Training Employment & Community Help Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/44

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,934

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

41/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Civil Rights$20,675,545Crime & Legal$3,817,963Other$2,206,133Human Services$1,808,780Health$190,451

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Foundation ForCA64.7× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Foundation For · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · National Court Appointed Special · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Ticket to Dream Foundation · Valorus · Sierra Health Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Simple Generosity Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way of Northern California

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CASA OF SOLANO COUNTY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~23 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +78% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 202551209 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CASA OF SOLANO COUNTY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 40% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to California Court Appointed Special through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California Court Appointed Special?

More from the funding graph

CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California Court Appointed Special?

More from the funding graph